Eastside Projects - Production Show

Working with Eastside Projects through the various phases of Production Show, including The Samosa Cart -  A mapping project for Birmingham looking at different trades and methodologies of mapping as a starting point for creative practice.

The Samosa Cart travelled between workshops in Digbeth over two weeks in August 2016.

Uninvited and unarranged, we exchanged street snacks for time; to learn about the area, local makers and industries.  At each stop, the cart was altered somehow with objects, materials or skills donated by the people of Digbeth.

“What is the role of a gallery in the forging of a new city? Eastside Projects wants to be a productive force and work with others to invent new modes of production. We want to be used. We need to work with you.

From widgets to houses, from the gallery to the World, ‘Production Show’ is a public acting out of our impulse to develop and support the making of culture in challenging times, and an attempt to reclaim Birmingham as a city of production.

The gallery is a machine for the production of art only in collaboration with others. Taking ‘the artist and the engineer’ as a modus operandi, ‘Production Show’ is an evolving process – a programme of relationships, commissions, exhibitions and events spanning two years which explodes Eastside Projects as an active space of research, development, prototyping, manufacturing and display – bringing to the fore processes which are usually kept behind the scenes.” Exhibition Text